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CableZL posted...

What you're referring to is people calling anyone who is a Muslim a terrorist just because of the way they look or dress.

That has nothing to do with what's going on in this topic.

The people who flew planes into the buildings on 9/11 are terrorists because they committed terroristic acts.

The people who stormed the capitol are terrorists because they committed terroristic acts.

Calling someone a terrorist because they speak Arabic or dress in traditional Muslim clothing is a racist dog whistle.

You're trying to conflate two different things and you know that.

No you're just not at all understanding what I am saying at all

In 2004 "let's go to the middle east to fight terrorism..."

In 2012 "it's not fair to call people protecting their own country terrorists"

In 2016 "calling someone a terrorist is just a dog whistle for racism against muslims"

In 2021 "Look at all those terrorists doing terrorist things. They're all terrorists and I'm excessively using the word terrorist, because now I have no guilt of racism. All this pent up urge to use the word terrorist is coming out of me and I'm gonna keep saying terrorist. It feels so good to call Trumpers terrorist apologists now."

*Note* Yes indeed it is accurate to call the 9/11 hijackers and the capitol stormers terrorists. The difference is the eagerness to use each term and who is saying it.

In 2002 a rural white person would use the term terrorist with this weird eagerness that is similar to the way ultra left leaning people label the capitol rioters as terrorists.

Again, in neither of these examples is the one using the word terrorist incorrect, but their eagerness to use the term does communicate something else as well.

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